New HA Yellow with CM5 unexpected shutdowns

Installation
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I’ve flashed RPI OS to the CM5. Than you can update the firmware via the terminal.

For inspiration:

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Another update to the saga:

After switching to the 3A PS, my setup (see below) was stable for about a week. Afterwards, it started shutting down randomly again! (I would trouble shoot more but this is currently far away so I have to visit like once a week and try out new things quick). The unexpected shutdowns got to the point of worse case not even able to see the front end before shutting off. But waiting a while and turning on gives me a little more time for some reason.

I tried to switch entirely to the PoE to power the device. Was hopeful but after an hour same behavior.

I’ll try to switch to safe mode next, and then maybe reinstall the whole thing with the OS and data on the nvme?. I have a feeling that it’s the CM5 but could it be the HA Y? I purchased a CM4 and will try that if it gets to it.

Also bought IO board for CM5 so I can do this firmware update thing

My setup:
-HA Yellow
-CM5 no wireless, 64gb (OS installed on here)
-1TB nvme (data moved to here)
-Z-wave USB stick attached

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I was also running into oddly random crashes on my HA Yellow POE Rev 1.3 without any logs supporting it.
I decided to try the suggestion of @nbalcaen and update the firmware of my CM5(CM5004032).
I just did this on the HA Yellow.

  1. I put it into USB mode as stated in the Get Started Docs
  2. Installed RPOS with a predone config like hostname, wifi and account info so I could ssh into it.
  3. Ran
sudo apt update
sudo apt full-update -y
sudo reboot

Then

sudo rpi-update
sudo reboot
  1. Then followed the docs and installed HAOS like normal.

Will report back with my finding!

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I am 48 hours post firmware updates and no crashing!
I am calling this a success because of the stark improvement! The Pi would only stay running for between 2 to 24 hours so this is big!

Would also like to reiterate I did this all from the HA Yellow without the need of another CM5 carrier board with video output or anything. SSH is your friend!

Will report back if anything regresses!

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no regression still? Curious to know!

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Hi Josh, was this a permanent fix for you?

Since 1 month I’m running into the same issue. First it was a one time unexpected shutdown without showing anything in logs. Then once after two weeks. And since yesterday, every few hours.

I did some research. When updating HAOS, updates of the Raspberry kernel are included. Which should have the same result as using the (in Raspberry world NOT recommended) rpi-update. So I’m wondering, why should rpi-update work for this issue and updating HAOS doesn’t? Do you have any idea?

I did do a complete disk wipe of my Home Assistant Yellow yesterday. Did a new install and after that restored my backup.

Note: between the new install and restoring the backup, the Home Assistant Yellow shut down on me again… So that already gave me the idea that this was not the fix I needed. And sure, after 10 hours of running fine, this morning it unexpectedly shut down again.